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Today’s
technique is making your own paper templates. Scrapbook paper comes in square
sheets 12”x12” and we usually cut them down into smaller rectangular shapes but
that can quickly become boring both visually and creatively.

Some paper company
sell shaped sheets to alleviate this but not everyone does and often they cost
extra and never in the perfect colour or pattern you wanted. To get around that
we will make some templates that we will use throughout the course so it is
worth having them to hand.

so using the template instructions, I used the Sketch in the PDF to make the following two layouts:

I rotated the sketch sideways to allow me to use a landscape photo

I wish you creative
joy in this part of scrapbooking as this is where you make choices about all the pretty parts of scrapbooking.

The truth about scrapbooking is that it can be
done by anyone with any sort of supplies. No matter what the craft industry
says, you do not need the $100 tool or every sheet of that pretty paper nor
four packs of those beautiful flowers before you even start scrapbooking. It is like any other art and hobby, as you go, you
accumulate, you collect and you horde – there is nothing wrong with this as
long as you use what you buy before it goes mouldy. I have a ton of tools and at
one point I had a large basement full of supplies so I can speak from experience
when I tell you that you don’t need it all – you can want it all – but you can
scrapbook without it all - I have scrapbooked out of a backpack on a hotel bed.

So there are three main necessities for scrapbooking: Photographs, Supplies and Tools and this lesson is about getting them together in a way that lets you scrapbook easily.

So this lesson is about turning a stack of Photographs ...

... into Project Bags for you to work with on the coming layout lessons.

I wish you creative
joy in this part of scrapbooking as this is where you make choices about all the pretty parts of scrapbooking.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

The first Layout Lesson went live today as part of my Unlock Scrapbooking course over at Art Geeks. Art Geeks is a non-drama, chilled out palce for people to grab free and paid for classes on art subjects such a figure drawing, art journals and a variety of mixed media art forms.